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Directed by | Andrey Konchalovskiy |
Written by | Anton Chekhov (play Uncle Vanya) Andrey Konchalovskiy (screenplay) |
Starring | Innokenti Smoktunovsky Sergei Bondarchuk Irina Kupchenko Irina Miroshnichenko Irina Anisimova-Wulf Vladimir Butenko Yekaterina Mazurova Nikolai Pastukhov Innokenti Smoktunovsky Vladimir Zeldin |
Cinematography | Yevgeni Guslinsky Georgi Rerberg |
Edited by | L. Pokrovskoi |
Music by | Alfred Shnitke |
Distributed by | Mosfilm |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Uncle Vanya (Russian: Дядя Ваня, romanized: Dyadya Vanya) is a 1970[1][2] film adaptation of the 1899 Anton Chekhov play of the same title and directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy.[3]
Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yelena, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.
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